After two years, the final Next Generation Science Standards arrived in April, and along with a focus on rigor and real-world application, the standards include a focus on engineering-and education leaders are ensuring that their teachers have the resources to teach the subject.
Resources:
Amazing Alex app- grades 4-8- Rube Goldberg contraptions
Coaster Crafter- grades 3-12 physics concepts taught through games building a roller coaster
Design Squad Nation- grades 3-8- compete to solve engineering problems
World of Goo app- grades 4-12- build structures with unique materials. Geometry, physics, engineering
What high school student wouldn't love an experiment that requires the chewing of bubble gum? This lesson plan has everything you need to determine the percentage of sugar in bubble gum. Students need an understanding of the periodic table and an ability to calculate molar mass.
Tableau Software today announced that it will make its flagship visual analytics product free to students currently enrolled at an accredited K-12 institution, college or university worldwide. Tableau for Students is a new program that provides licenses of Tableau Desktop Professional to students to enhance their studies and gain new skills. Tableau Academic Programs also include the Tableau for Teaching initiative, which offers educators software for their classrooms. Students should visit http://www.tableausoftware.com/academic/students to obtain a free product code and will be asked for information to verify their student status at an accredited institution.
Name: Vernier Video Physics
What is it? A 2012 CODiE Awards Finalist for 'Best Educational Use of a Mobile Device,' Video Physics brings physics video analysis to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Users can take a video of an object in motion, mark its position frame by frame, and set up the scale using a known distance. Video Physics then draws trajectory, position, and velocity graphs for the object. Share video, graphs and data via the Camera Roll, eMail, and iTunes. Perform on-the-go analysis of interesting motions. Measure the velocity of a child's swing, a roller-coaster, or a car. Or, take a video of a basketball free throw shot. Video Physics will display the path of the ball and provide graphs of Y vs X as well as the X and Y position and velocity as a function of time.
Best for: Students and physics instructors.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
The Emirates Foundation is delighted to announce "Think Science Competition" for the academic year 2012/2013, in partnership with Ministry of Education and Abu Dhabi Education Council and supported by Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA), and Siemens LLC. What is "Think Science Competition" ?
Think Science Competition is a science competition that aims at engaging teams of up to three talented youth from all Emirates The Competition is to design, develop, and build science based innovations, and to apply science skills in solving practical problems Eager and gifted youth from across the UAE are invited to participate with their innovations. Distinguished participants will be rewarded and named winners of the Think Science Competition. Youth aged 15 to 24 from public/private schools and universities from across the UAE are invited to apply for the Competition. Participants will showcase their projects at Think Science Exhibition in April 2013 Winners announcement will be in a ceremony in April 2013 Deadline for proposal submission and online registration is November 12, 2012.